Villager Groups:The Smallest Unit of Rural Governance

LI Yongping （Huazhong University of Science and Technology）

CI Qinying (Wuhan University)

 

Abstract:The villager group is the most basic management unit of rural grassroots governance system,which takes an important role in the management of rural society.It is founded that the effective governance of villager groups in the western Sichuan plainresponds the farmers’“public demand” in their daily life,and reflects the villager groups’ ability of  organizational, mobilization,maintaining order and balancing interest.The villager groups’ ability governing is not natural. This relies on the combined action of governance body,governance resources,management motivation and governance legitimacy.As a medium between farmers and village committee and nation,villager groups contribute to supplyingbasic public service and coordinating with the national policy execution in the village.With the transformation of national governance after tax and fee time,the governance capacity of villager groups should be cultivated and the practice form of villager autonomy should be expanded,so as to lower the villager autonomy unit and improve the performance of rural governance.

Key words:rural governance; governance of villager groups; publicity of villager groups; villager autonomy